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November 2009 
What does personal freedom mean to you?
Posted on Nov 5th, 2009
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 05, 2009:
It is so tempting, so many times a day, to pretend that whatever I'm experiencing was inflicted on me. The dog is driving me crazy, that really bad driver pissed me off, I'm happy because I got paid more than I expected. It came from somewhere and it's because of something and that something IS NOT ME, no, you can't make me be responsible for that! But in that whole Victor Frankl, even in a concentration camp there's that space where you choose your response kind of way, personal freedom is inescapable and it's identical at heart with personal responsiblity. You know that thing that everyone says and I have no idea if it's true but that thing about how the Chinese character for crisis is the same as opportunity? It should be true if it isn't. Anyway, it's just like that. It isn't that personal freedom and personal responsibility go together, it's that they are just one thing with two words stuck to it. And there isn't an option not to have it.
I am going for the world's record for run on sentences. What do you think?
My personal little NaNoWriMo - 50k words in one sentence...
I am going for the world's record for run on sentences. What do you think?
My personal little NaNoWriMo - 50k words in one sentence...
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On a further and different personal freedom note, check this out: the idea of an implantable virus detection system is one of the most intrusive and bizarre things I've ever heard of outside of weird post-apocalyptic dystopian sci fi. Does a buzzer come with it that goes off and alerts people around you to your contaminated status?
Interesting, your post and the added comment about the veri-chip. Since MRSA is on the rise, 'gonna be a whole lot of those little things making moise around us…..would seem to me to make more sense figuring out how to live in a way that things like MRSA aren't a threat. Its as if our world is getting even with us for being really bad stewards of the earth….